rjmah wrote:You don't say which board you have. I have a Sparkfun and an Olimex both are talking and loading now. Mine don't have 8 pin headers. I plug the Tx and Rx into the side pins. Also have you set your Arduino Nano up as an ISP? I've used a similar set-up to boot load a bare Atmel chip.
I have exactly the same board as on picture except is in blue color. Ordered on eBay. You were asking if I did set up Arduino Nano as an ISP. As far as I know, I don't need additional Arduino. I have only an Arduino UNO. I really don't know what I'm missing here, cuz it's simply not working :/